On Oct 12, 2009, at 7:41 AM, Igor Ybema wrote:
I recently noticed that there seems a peering issue on the ipv6
internet.
As we all know hurricane is currently the largest ipv6 carrier.
Other large
carriers are now implementing ipv6 on their networks, like Cogent
and Telia.
However, due to some politics it seems that they are not peering
with each
other resulting in a broken ipv6 internet currently. I noticed this
by using
the looking glasses from telia and hurricane.
This is only a real problem if you use hurricane as the only transit.
However, hurricane also announces 6to4 relays. When you happen to
use the
hurricane relay server (due to the shortest path), cogent and telia
(and
maybe more) are not reachable.
I already asked hurricane about their point of view. They simply
just ignore
it because they 'are the biggest one'.
It is sad to see that networks which used to care about connectivity,
peering, latency, etc., when they are small change their mind when
they are "big". The most recent example is Cogent, an open peer who
decided to turn down peers when they reached transit free status.
I never thought HE would be one of those networks.
--
TTFN,
patrick
